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The Daily Show finds that Occupy Wall Street is against “private property,” but not “personal property.”
Wait. What?!
Are you really so dense that you don’t understand that personal property (commodities and basic goods) is significantly different from private property (private, guarded ownership of a means of production)? The two terms can’t be used interchangeably.
This particular Marxian distinction is, as you might expect, comically incoherent at the margin.
I, for example, also have an iPad. When I’m at work, I use it to develop iPhone apps for my evil capitalist business, making it pretty clearly a means of production. Seeing as it’s the means I use to produce, and all.
At home, of course, I use it for many personal and indeed frivolous activities.
So, what, does it switch back and forth between personal and private property depending on what I’m using it for at the time? Do I have to stop owning it every time I fire up Xcode and magically be given it back when I switch to Angry Birds?
…or is that all the kind of bullshit you get when you haven’t coherently defined your damn categories?
What cerebralicious said is pretty much exactly what I was going to point out before he(?) did…except that I don’t know what Xcode is.
(via cerebralicious)
